WORLD CUP 2018 BRACKET–USA NOT IN S KOREA UK VIA MEXICO TO BATTLE AS AUSTRALIA MUST DEFEAT RUSSIA TO MOVE UP THE BRACKET

http://worldsoccertalk.com/2018/01/04/world-cup-2018-bracket/

THE OLD WETBACK LAW OF 1954 TO INDISCRIMINITELY ROUND UP ILLEGALS FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA HAS COME FULL FORCE IN TENNESSEE IN THE 21ST CENTURY - THE HOME STATE OF DAVY CROCKETT- ICE GETS TO DEPORT 54 FAMILY MEMBERS WHILST THEIR CHILDREN SUFFER - THE TRUE OUTCOME OF THE FAILED IMMIGRATION POLICY - FAMILIES SEPARATION - THE 21ST CENTURY TRAIL OF TEARS

1954 OPERATION WETBACK

One morning in April, federal immigration agents swept into a meatpacking plant in this northeastern Tennessee manufacturing town, launching one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump took office with a pledge to crack down on illegal immigration.

Dozens of panicked workers fled in every direction, some wedging themselves between beef carcasses or crouching under bloody butcher tables. About 100 workers, including at least one American citizen, were rounded up — every Latino employee at the plant, it turned out, save a man who had hidden in a freezer.

The raid occurred in a state that is on the raw front lines of the immigration debate. Mr. Trump won 61 percent of the vote in Tennessee, and continues to enjoy wide popularity. The state’s rapidly growing immigrant population, now estimated to total more than 320,000, has become a favorite target of the Republican-controlled State Legislature. In 2017, Tennessee lawmakers passed the nation’s first law requiring stiffer sentences for defendants who are in the country illegally. In April, they passed a law requiring the police to help enforce immigration laws and making it illegal for local governments to adopt so-called sanctuary policies.

But Morristown, a town of 30,000 northeast of Knoxville that was the boyhood home of Davy Crockett, has drawn migrant workers from Latin America since the early 1990s, when they first came to work on the region’s abundant tomato farms. As stepped-up security has made going back and forth across the border more difficult, many of these families have settled into the community, enrolled their kids in school, and joined churches where they have baptized their American-born children.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html

INDIA GROWING ITS MILITARY EXPENDITURES TO FEND OFF PAKISTAN AND COMMUNIST CHINA TO $63.9 BILLION PUTTING INDIA IN THE TOP 5 MILITARY 2017 SPENDERS BEHIND THE USA $610 BILLION, CHINA $228 BILLION, RUSSIA $87.8 BILLION (2013), SAUDI ARABIA $67 BILLION (2013)

NEW DELHI • India has joined the United States and China as one of the world's five biggest military spenders, reflecting geopolitical tensions as well as the country's reliance on imported weapons and sprawling personnel costs.
New Delhi's defence spending rose by 5.5 per cent to US$63.9 billion (S$85.3 billion) in 2017 and has now passed France, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report released yesterday. Worldwide military spending rose marginally last year to US$1.73 trillion, or roughly 2.2 per cent of global gross domestic product, the think-tank said.
"The Indian government plans to expand, modernise and enhance the operational capability of its armed forces, motivated at least partially by tensions with China and Pakistan," the report read.

The list of the world's biggest military spenders has remained consistent in recent years, dominated by the US and China, which spent US$610 billion and US$228 billion, respectively last year, according to SIPRI, which researches global arms spending.
However, the group said the balance of military spending is "clearly shifting" towards Asia, Oceania and the Middle East, driven largely by spending increases in China, India and Saudi Arabia.
China spends far more on its military than any other power in Asia. Beijing's share of worldwide military expenditure rose to 13 per cent in 2017 from just 5.8 per cent in 2008, according to SIPRI.

 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-among-top-five-defence-spenders-in-world

AUSTRALIA REACTS TO ANTi SHIP MISSILES INSTALLATION ON THREE ISLAND CARRIERS MILITARIZED BY COMMUNIST CHINA AS MISSILLE INSTALLATION BEGUN IN FIERY CROSS REEF, SUBI REEF, MISCHIEF REEF OF THE SPRATLY ISLAND CHAIN TO PROJECT DOMINANCE 295 MILES AROUND EACH ISLAND

CHINA has installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three of its outposts in the South China Sea, US news network CNBC reports, citing sources with direct knowledge of US intelligence reports.

The move, if confirmed, would mark the first Chinese missile deployments in the Spratly Islands, where several Asian countries including Vietnam and Taiwan have rival claims.
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the Australian Government would be “concerned” if the reports were accurate.
The Minister refused to confirm or deny any Australian intelligence about the missiles.
But she said: “If the media reports are accurate, then the Australian Government would be concerned because this would be contrary to China’s stated aspiration that it would not militarise these features.”

http://www.news.com.au/military/china-installs-missiles-on-three-south-china-sea-outposts/news-story/3ef29ce7950904151a0b7328686cf511